"Good News and Bad News"

That's how Taylor described it to me today. So we were at work a couple days ago and my friend Taylor said he was told by one of his sergeants that they may have a chance to go down to New Orleans to help out with flood relief and maintaining some kind of order...

...And while I am thinking of this I have an almost completed unrelated side-note: I was listening to the radio on my way to Belmont today and one stupid DJ was like, "It's my birthday and I don't want to celebrate because I feel guilty about the hurricane." Are you fucking kidding me? I'm sorry, but that has got to be one of the most ridiculous things I have heard in a while, and given some of the people I know, that's saying a lot. These words actually came out of her mouth. Why does she feel guilty for celebrating her birthday? She is completely unrelated to this incident and has nothing to do with it. Yes, we all feel horrible about what happened and many people are doing whatever they can to help, in terms of supplies, money, shelter, etc. but not celebrating your birthday is hardly going to do anything and all you managed to accomplish was to make yourself sound like an idiot. Of course her co-DJ sounded dumb too, commending her for it but saying it was something he could never do. Your birthday is inconsequential to these people and whether or not you celebrate it doesn't matter to anyone, you mean nothing, go celebrate your stupid birthday and shut the hell up...

...and now back to Taylor. I got a voice mail from him while I was helping with Curriculum Night at Belmont, and the exact words were, "Hey hon, give me a call when you get this, talk to you later, bye." Now, this wouldn't have been all that bad, except the tone of his voice was not his normal self, and I've heard this tone before. I heard it in Adam's voice when he said almost the exact same thing to me back in December with, "Sarah, there's something I need to tell you..." and then he told me he was going to Iraq. Well, guess what, the good news is this: Taylor does not have to go to New Orleans or anywhere down south. The bad news: he is on alert and will be deployed again in the near future. I don't know all of the details yet and won't for a while, but there's a high probability he will be going in the next couple weeks/month. Hence, we are going out tomorrow night and we're going to act like nothing's changed and we're all getting ready crunked (as Tom always likes to say). It just sucks because he's only been back since December and now he's going to be going again less than a year later.

On a slightly happier note - I got a ticket to the Wake Forest game on Saturday so I won't be completely without my Huskers this season. I am glad I took Saturdays off, I really need some time to regroup between being at Belmont all the time, and then Office Shithole, and the Testing Center too.

Anyway, that's all for now, I have to get to bed soon, these kids are wearing me out!